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ICRA
2009
IEEE
129views Robotics» more  ICRA 2009»
13 years 5 months ago
Modeling and control of a pair of robot fingers with saddle joint under orderless actuations
A new robot hand dynamics model with rolling constraints and with a saddle joint at one finger is proposed, where two saddle-joint actuations are considered to be orderless. Spinni...
Morio Yoshida, Suguru Arimoto, Kenji Tahara
IROS
2009
IEEE
168views Robotics» more  IROS 2009»
14 years 2 months ago
DASH: A dynamic 16g hexapedal robot
—DASH is a small, lightweight, power autonomous robot capable of running at speeds up to 15 body lengths per second (see video). Drawing inspiration from biomechanics, DASH has a...
Paul Birkmeyer, Kevin Peterson, Ronald S. Fearing
IROS
2006
IEEE
135views Robotics» more  IROS 2006»
14 years 1 months ago
Toward Legless Locomotion Control
— Motivated by an error-recovery locomotion problem, we propose a control technique for a complex mechanical system by decomposing the system dynamics into a collection of simpli...
Ravi Balasubramanian, Alfred A. Rizzi, Matthew T. ...
CVPR
2008
IEEE
14 years 9 months ago
The Kneed Walker for human pose tracking
The Kneed Walker is a physics-based model derived from a planar biomechanical characterization of human locomotion. By controlling torques at the knees, hips and torso, the model ...
Marcus A. Brubaker, David J. Fleet
ROBIO
2006
IEEE
173views Robotics» more  ROBIO 2006»
14 years 1 months ago
Impedance Control of the Hydraulic Shoulder A 3-DOF Parallel Manipulator
– In this paper, a model-based impedance control strategy is developed for a 3 DOF parallel manipulator to manage the interaction of the robot with the environment. Kinematic and...
H. Sadjadian, H. D. Taghirad